How did you first get into Anime?

As a kid, you know I watched what was on television. Stuff like Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, a bit of Dragon Ball, etc. but I wasn't really aware of what anime was as a medium.

Fast forward to when I was in my early teen years and I discovered some ecchi anime that I took a like to. Stuff like B Gata H Kei, Akikan, KissXSis, etc. I watched a handful of ecchi anime that I got kinda into on sketchy websites that don't exist anymore lol.

I didn't really start to seriously get into watching anime until I was in high school, where I had convinced a group of friends to get into it, and we would all watch a show or two per season together and that was super fun. At that point I started watching a lot more anime and now I am where I am now with a but-ton of stuff watched